As we pull this week’s version of the Bulletin together, we’re also assembling our pitch package for NATPE, a virtual TV producer and distributor conference. This is the third conference we’ve attended in the last couple of years, and only the second that (thanks to COVID) is virtual. In the last five years we’ve produced BRASS plays, BRASS podcasts and … Read More
That’s Why the Lady is a Brass: a Chat with Kate Kraay
Kate Kraay has played the role of Lady Brass since its first audio episode, as well as onstage (The Launch Party) and on film (Lair of the Red Widow, The Kinesigraph). As we approach the close of the fourth season, we realized that we hadn’t done a profile on Kate–a pretty huge omission, seeing how important she’s been to BRASS! … Read More
BRASS Episode 37: Voices in the Dark
The cat-and-mouse games continue between Lord Brass and the Crime Minister, Gwendolyn visits a policeman, and Lord Trent arrives for another interview in the dark room.
BRASS Episode 36: The Price of Eloquence
Lord Brass and Ab’d discuss realpolitik, Cyril has an audience with an archbishop, the Crime Minister gives a geometry lesson, and Gwendolyn plans a heist.
BRASS Episode #35: Fellow Travelers
The intrigue continues as Gwendolyn goes street peddling, Cyril has a romantic ocean crossing and Lady Brass meets with the infamous leader of Edinburgh’s Chinatown, Madame Hao.
The Knack and How He Got It: An Interview with Jeremy Adams
The Knack and How He Got It When Jeremy Adams auditioned for the role of Cyril Brass back in 2015, it seemed less like he was auditioning and more that he simply picked up the script and WAS Cyril—the charm, the diffidence, the dandyish swagger were all there at once. For the last five years, Adams has played the martially … Read More
BRASS Stacks 16: Christmas Every Day
William Dean Howell’s 1892 story about a little girl who wished it could be Christmas every day has an interesting moral or two for adults as well.
BRASS Episode 34: Masks Begin to Fall
Lord Brass examines some craft, Gwendolyn leads a meeting, and a mystery emerges regarding Professor Von Hoffmann.
BRASS Episode 33: Next Moves
Lord Brass talks to the aviatrix, the Crime Minister moves some pieces, and Vincent Law shares a secret.
Chasing Aimee
Aimee Decker is one of the rare members of the BRASS company to have performed in all three of our mediums. Twice on stage and once on film she’s played Tommy Moore, one of the cunning criminal cabal known as The Watch and Chain Gang. And this season she premieres as Madame Hao, a Sino-Scot kingpin in this alternate century’s … Read More